OpenAI’s ChatGPT recently faced a series of outages and performance hiccups reported across several continents. In the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany the disruptions were most pronounced, with users describing slower responses, incomplete answers, and sudden disconnects. Similar reports emerged in France, Switzerland, Spain, Greece, Italy and other nations, where the chat service experienced intermittent unavailability or degraded performance. The pattern suggests that maintaining consistent AI chat quality across diverse networks and devices remains a challenge for providers in a highly connected world.
Analysts and users alike note that the bulk of complaints concern how ChatGPT performs in real tasks. Approximately 92 percent of the feedback centers on service quality and reliability, while around 7 percent relates to difficulty accessing the web version. This distribution indicates that the AI experience itself was the primary issue, with some users hitting friction when attempting to reach the browser-based interface during outages or peak traffic.
On February 14, a mass outage event affecting the Fast Payment System (SBP) study highlighted how interconnected digital ecosystems can suffer when critical payment and messaging services are affected at the same time. While the disruption was not caused by ChatGPT, the incident underscored the broader fragility of online services during large-scale outages and the way such events ripple through everyday tasks.
Earlier in February, Steam users in Russia faced a notable disruption. More than 1,500 players reported interruptions to gameplay and access to in-game features. The episode illustrates how gaming platforms, digital shops and social networks depend on stable infrastructure and cross-service reliability to keep communities engaged.
On February 11, Telegram Messenger also saw a wave of failure reports. A large share of the notifications originated from Moscow and the Moscow region, with additional reports from Saint Petersburg, Tver, Nizhny Novgorod and the Leningrad region. The concentration of reports in specific locales pointed to regional instability in messaging and real-time communication during that period.
Android users described unusual app behavior as well, including glitches and unexpected responses. Such reports highlight how mobile variants of chat and messaging tools can diverge from desktop experiences, complicating troubleshooting for people who rely on smartphones for work, study and daily communication.